On 26 Jan 1998, Kirk Hilliard wrote: > Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I like to set TERM=xterm-color, and don't have a lot of patience with > > programs that can't deal with this. When telneting, it is good to put > > TERM=vt100 or some such thing in your .bashrc or it's equivelent on the > > remote system. > > Note that, as things stand now, in hamm there is no xterm-color. > /etc/terminfo/x/xterm includes the color definition, and there is a > /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old.[1] (There are also color_xterm, > xterm-16color, and xterm-pcolor, but no xterm-color.) > For some details see:
Oops. I still have xterm-color, but I always suspected that my 1.2->1.3 upgrade hadn't gone quite right. > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/14/14366.html > > > Kirk Hilliard > > > [1] I hate dselect[2] in a color xterm since the whitespace > surrounding the descriptive text of the information section > is not colored, so big blocks of reverse video text jump around > as I scroll through packages. Hence, I always run: > > # TERM=xterm-old dselect > > > [2] I have noticed that, in hamm, dselect no longer seems to handle > xterm resizing. Also, stray characters sometime appear after > rapidly scrolling through packages. Has anyone else noticed > this, and is it a bug in dselect, or in ncurses, or what? > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
